Ohanaeze says INEC’s voters registration mere cosmetics, urges Southern govs’ to discuss north’s dominance

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Ohanaeze Ndigbo has described the provision in each local government

with one registration machine as deliberate attempt by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to disenfranchise many Nigerians of voting age.

The goup which stated this on Friday, while condemning the ongoing national voters’ registration exercise, further harped on the need for southern Nigeria governors to regularly meet to assess and proffer
solutions to emerging national issues.

According to Ohanaeze, the ongoing voters’ registration is too cosmetic and different from the last registration exercise of 2014, which ensured that every voting centre in Nigeria had a machine configured to it.

The group said that the present INEC has continuously shown that it was bereft of good initiatives.

This was contained in a statement the group issued in Abakaliki after its National Executive Committee (NEC) Meeting at the Enugu National Headquarters.

The statement had the president general of Ohanaeze, Chief John Nnia Nwodo Jnr, positing that it was proper for all southern governors to meet and look at how political issues in the country affect the government and people of that part of Nigeria.

He said that a formidable and virile bloc of governors of the southern divide will reposition them as an indispensable body in the growth of the nation’s economy.

He said, “The deliberate and continuous lopsided federal appointments in favour of the North, the blatant, incessant and unfettered destruction of farms, rape of women and killing of innocent Nigerians
by herdsmen among other issues demand that Nigerians of all walks of life rise up in defence of their right to life and human dignity.”